TITLE:
Gaim MSN SLP Message Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12887

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12887/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Gaim 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/2529/
Gaim 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4107/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Gaim, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
handling of MSN SLP messages. This can be exploited to cause a buffer
overflow by supplying a specially crafted sequence of MSN SLP
messages.

Successful exploitation may potentially allow execution of arbitrary
code.

Two other bugs have also been reported, which can be exploited to
crash the application when accepting file transfers and processing a
malformed MSN SLP message.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.02.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=9
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=8
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=7

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